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...stands almost 6 ft. tall and weighs 195 lbs., but John Robinson was nearly invisible. No one knew what he did for a living. He worked mostly at home, tapping away at a computer, speaking vaguely about some businesses he ran and occasionally disappearing in his pickup truck. The lot around the gray mobile home he kept on a hilltop in the east Kansas town of Olathe is well trimmed, with a weathered figurine of the Virgin Mary set on the lawn and a grill on the back porch. Most of his neighbors couldn't recall ever seeing...
...hard to imagine being like 28-year-old Shaquille O'Neal. At 7 ft. 1 in. and 320 lbs., he is IMAX big, a human order of supersize fries, a skyscraper in size-22 sneakers. NBA stars, of course, tend to be tall, but there's usually a sense of elongation, of a body stretched, like gum, until it is long and thin. O'Neal seems like a man who has been magnified. He is not just tall; he is massive...
...this film we learn that it takes 8,000 lbs. of pressure to crush a car but only one credited screenwriter (Scott Rosenberg) to pound out such a lame script. In the Bruckheimer tradition, Memphis assembles a team to carry off the job: a father figure (Robert Duvall), the token black (Chi McBride) and a mute (Brit footballer Vinnie Jones) with a gift for setting cars on fire. Angelina Jolie is here as the nominal girl-jock love interest, but Memphis' true love is a Ford Mustang Shelby GT 500. As he says of his early career, "I didn...
...lbs. Weight of an inflatable tequila bottle stolen last month from a Long Island...
...board on two wheels, steered with handlebars and propelled by foot. The new versions, however, are made from lightweight metals, sport faster and more shock-absorbent wheels, are narrow enough to thread through congested sidewalks and have collapsible steering columns for portability. The top-selling Razor weighs about 6 lbs. and, when folded, can fit into a backpack. Unlike a bike, it requires no lock or parking space and incurs no hostile stares when crammed on a commuter train at rush hour...